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Lily Brooks-Dalton

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Born
in Brattleboro, VT, The United States
August 18

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September 2007


​Lily Brooks-Dalton is the author of The Light Pirate, which was the runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, a #1 Indie Next title, and a New York Times Editors' Pick. Her previous novel, Good Morning, Midnight, was the inspiration for the film adaptation The Midnight Sky and her memoir, Motorcycles I’ve Loved, was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her work has been translated into 19 languages and she is the recipient of the PEN America L'Engle/Rahman Prize for mentorship. Her new novel, Ruins, is forthcoming in March 2026. ...more

Average rating: 3.98 · 70,856 ratings · 10,492 reviews · 4 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Light Pirate

4.03 avg rating — 45,421 ratings — published 2022 — 18 editions
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Good Morning, Midnight

3.90 avg rating — 24,224 ratings — published 2016 — 42 editions
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Ruins

3.67 avg rating — 862 ratings — published 2026 — 8 editions
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Motorcycles I've Loved: A M...

3.60 avg rating — 349 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions
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“What is magic but science that is not yet understood? What is science but magic with an explanation?”
Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

“Only the cosmos inspired great feeling in him. Perhaps what he felt was love, but he’d never consciously named it. His was an all-consuming one-directional romance with the emptiness and the fullness of the entire universe. There was no room to spare, no time to waste on a lesser lover. He preferred it that way. The”
Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight

“They fought so hard to keep a world that was not meant to stay the same.”
Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

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